The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system supports a number of integrations. Use the information in this chapter to help you decide which integrations to install on your system and which hardware to use for each. The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.0 system can have a maximum of 16 integration servers

Microsoft Outlook for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Integration

Microsoft Outlook for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace integrates the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system with your Microsoft Exchange server. This integration allows end users to schedule and attend Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings by using their Microsoft Outlook clients as well as to receive e-mail notifications for meetings to which they have been invited. End users can choose to accept meeting invitations and have those meetings automatically display in their Microsoft Outlook calendars, or decline the invitations if they cannot attend the meetings.

The Microsoft Outlook for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace integration is automatically installed as part of the Application Server.

Jabber for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Integration

With Jabber for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, users can initiate Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings from a Jabber Messenger client. The meeting initiator selects invitees from a list of contacts and invites them to the meeting. The system sends an instant message that contains a hypertext meeting ID link to each invitee. To join the meeting, invitees click the hyperlink.

IBM Lotus Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Integration

IBM Lotus Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace integrates the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system with your IBM Lotus Domino Server. This integration allows end-users to schedule and attend Cisco Unified MeetingPlace meetings by using their IBM Lotus Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace clients as well as to receive e-mail notifications for meetings to which they have been invited. End-users can choose to accept meeting invitations and have meetings automatically display in their IBM Lotus Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace calendars, or decline the invitations if they cannot attend the meetings.

The IBM Lotus Notes for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace integration enables end users to perform the following tasks:

With this integration, an IBM Lotus Sametime Connect client can start an instant meeting, and invitees receiving the meeting invitation can join the meeting in the IBM Lotus Sametime Web meeting room and receive audio through Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.

Integrating with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator

When Cisco Unified MeetingPlace is integrated with both Cisco Unified Personal Communicator and Cisco WebEx, users who are in a Cisco Unified Personal Communicator conversation can quickly share data through a Cisco WebEx web meeting. The audio portion of the meeting is provided by Cisco Unified Personal Communicator.

Integrating with Cisco Unified IP Phones

You can integrate Cisco Unified MeetingPlace with Cisco Unified IP Phones so that users can see and manage their meetings on their phones through an application called Cisco Unified MeetingPlace PhoneView.

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace PhoneView offers users a convenient way to join meetings, start reservationless meetings, view a list of upcoming meetings, and view meeting details. After joining a meeting, a user can perform in-meeting operations such as locking the meeting, recording the meeting, viewing a list of participants, and muting or ejecting participants.